46°0′10″ N 82°50′14″ W

We are about 15 kilometers (1 hour) away from Meldrum Bay & have only met two boats in the past four hours.

There’s not enough wind for sailing but the water is flat & it’s perfect for motoring. Chris & I are not sure if we can keep this hectic pace up much longer – but we’ll give our best try.

45°59′45″ N 82°27′58″ W

A beautiful day today & the waters have flattened out like a piece of glass. We are making great time. As a result, we have decided to go past Gore Bay & head to Meldrum Bay instead. As you can see in the photo below, Chris is quite stressed about our life at sea.

Cheers mates!

45°56′0″ N 81°46′8″ W

Here we anchored in Browning Cove on Heywood Island. We dropped the hook at 8:00 pm – 8 hours after we left Tobermory (at noon) earlier today.

Our trip from Tobermory was pretty easy & we even got the jib out for a few hours. Average speed with sail & the engine assistance was about 7 knots.

There are about 15 boats anchored in this spot & there’s lots of room for everybody. Loons greeted us as we set our anchor.

Chris is making pasta with meat sauce for us tonight. It will go well with a big glass of red wine (we have a bit of that on board).

Cheers everyone!

45°15′22″ N 81°39′46″ W

If you copy & paste the above coordinates into Google Maps search box it will show you our location. I will try to remember to include our coordinates with each blog posting.

Note that the GPS coordinates with Google Maps may show us in a parking lot or on the side of a hill but I can assure you that we are still afloat. If we run aground I’ll be sure to post a special blog about that particular experience.

We arrived in Tobermory (Little Tub) Harbour around 2:00 am this morning, found an empty dock & went to bed. A long but satisfying day.

More chores await. Yesterday morning I was on a “high” at the top of the mast. This morning I’m a little closer to the waterline. (Unfortunately the glass of red that awaits me is transmission fluid – not wine – that comes much later in the day – after we have tied up to a dock or dropped the hook in a nice little anchorage)

Cheers!

Current location: 44 06 N x 081 49 W

We finally cast off from Goderich at 12:00 noon. But not before there were a few more glitches to sort out.

My GPS unit did not want to “talk” to my laptop. I had tested everything out at home a few days earlier & it all worked perfectly.

It appears that my laptop got caught in a Windows 10 update while we were at the dock & that caused the problem with the GPS software & drivers. So, we started our journey with Chris’ iPad & I sorted out the problem with my laptop a couple of hours later.

We are now making a steady 6.9 knots under motor only & will decide what our first destination of the trip will be. Under consideration now are Tobermory, Wingfield Basin & Powderhouse Bay.

ETA for our furthest destination is about 4:00am tomorrow morning. In any case we will be traveling until midnight or later. The weather & wind forecast looks reasonable & Ananda is running well.